Perceived security of land tenure in Recife, Brazil

Souza, Flavio de

doi:10.1016/s0197-3975(00)00023-0

Cited by 39 publications

(24 citation statements)

References 6 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Unclassified

Order By: Relevance

“…The rival vision of the relation between tenure security and housing improvement thus questions the necessity of legal title as a bearer of security for informal settlement dwellers and argues that tenure security is not, or at least not only, determined by legal category. The idea is that informal settlements simply improve over time as people invest in their housing even in the absence of rights as long as they think that they will not be removed by the authorities (Karst, 1971; Turner, 1976; Varley, 1987; Razzaz, 1993; Gilbert, 1994; 2002; de Souza, 2000; Payne, 2001; Ferguson and Navarrete, 2003; Aristizabal and Ortíz Gómez, 2004; Calderón, 2004; Broegaard, 2005). Factors that can contribute to perceptions of tenure security are signs of goodwill by government officials, the provision of services and infrastructure, length of occupation, size of the settlement and the degree of community organization (Payne, 1997; Durand‐Lasserve and Royston, 2002; Gilbert, 2002; Durand‐Lasserve, 2006).…”

Section: The Perceived Tenure Security Argumentmentioning

confidence: 99%

Legal Tenure Security, Perceived Tenure Security and Housing Improvement in Buenos Aires: An Attempt towards Integration

Gelder

2009

Int J Urban Regional Res

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

This article critically reviews several claims underlying different positions in the debate on tenure legalization and empirically investigates them in a low-income settlement in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Even though both tenure legality, in the form of property titles, and perceived tenure security have separately been shown to influence housing improvement, most research has taken a relatively rudimentary approach to their measurement, and little work has been done to examine their interrelations. These issues are taken up in the present article in which the legal-illegal tenure dichotomy embedded in standard perspectives on legalization is broadened to include intermediate levels of legality and subsequently linked to a social psychological perspective on perceived tenure security. The question of to what extent property titles facilitate access to credit is also examined. The results show that tenure legality and perceived tenure security are in fact closely related in the settlement under study, as higher levels of legality also imply higher perceived tenure security. Furthermore, both tenure legality and perceived tenure security are significant predictors of housing improvement and, consequently, settlement development. There was, however, no relation between tenure legality and access to credit. Copyright (c) 2009 The Author. Journal Compilation(c) 2009 Joint Editors and Blackwell Publishing Ltd.

show abstract

Section: The Perceived Tenure Security Argumentmentioning

confidence: 99%

Legal Tenure Security, Perceived Tenure Security and Housing Improvement in Buenos Aires: An Attempt towards Integration

Gelder

2009

Int J Urban Regional Res

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…A number of studies have shown the importance of land tenure security in housing investment (e.g. de Souza, 1999de Souza, , 2001Khemro & Payne, 2004;Olima & Obala, 1998). In our study, we shall use the value difference between freehold and leasehold property (i.e.…”

Section: Theoretical Modelingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Intergenerational discounting: A case from Hong Kong

Wong¹,

Chau²,

Yiu³

et al. 2008

Habitat International

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

“…1. For an exception, see de Souza (2001). Others summarise survey results but do not discuss individual views.…”

Section: Notesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Property titles and the urban poor: from informality to displacement?

Varley

2016

Planning Theory & Practice

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

An extensive literature opposes the provision of property titles for the residents of informal settlements. One concern is that titling leads to commodification and the market-driven displacement of the original inhabitants. Another is that it propagates the ideology of private ownership, undermines collective solidarity and demobilises social movements. This article, based on observations from Mexico City and Guadalajara, finds little evidence of displacement but highlights the importance of location. It supports the view that formalisation undermines resistance, but argues that titling does so by meeting rather than creating the desire of the urban poor for private property and homeownership.

show abstract

Perceived security of land tenure in Recife, Brazil

Cited by 39 publications

References 6 publications

Legal Tenure Security, Perceived Tenure Security and Housing Improvement in Buenos Aires: An Attempt towards Integration

Legal Tenure Security, Perceived Tenure Security and Housing Improvement in Buenos Aires: An Attempt towards Integration

Intergenerational discounting: A case from Hong Kong

Property titles and the urban poor: from informality to displacement?

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About